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title: "Power and powerlessness"
date: 2017-03-17
last_modified: 2025-01-04T17:14:01+01:00
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url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/presidential-portrait-art-painting-bush-trump-kennedy-obama-antsy-en/"
description: "From Washington to Trump: US Presidents have always been a rich source of inspiration for artists. These images are inevitably also a political statement – not always to the benefit of the Head of State."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Header_Peter_Saul_George_W_Bush_Abu_Graib_President_USA_Potus_Schirn.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# Power and powerlessness